Maduro’s Venezuela victory to stand despite vote-rigging claim

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President Maduro and President Kirchner of Argentina visiting the mausoleum where Hugo Chávez’s body liesMiraflores Press/EPA

James Hider

Published at 12:01AM, April 22 2013

Venezuela’s electoral committee said it would not revise its verdict on President Maduro’s poll victory, despite agreeing to carry out a full recount in the disputed ballot.

The announcement by Sandra Oblitas, deputy head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), is likely to stoke tensions that had died down at the end of last week, when the organisation bowed to opposition demands for an audit.

“We will not let something that aims to verify whether the system worked be turned into a sort of public impeachment that tries to question the results,” she said. “As always, when the CNE announces